Compositions and methods for determining directionality of radiation
AssigneeSagamore/Adams Laboratories LLC
InventorRusi P. Taleyarkhan
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Abstract
A method of determining directionality of radiation is disclosed which comprises dividing the tensioned metastable fluid liquid volume adjacent to a radioactive source into a plurality of sectors, determining the opposing sector ratio of the respective sector and determining the direction of the radiation based on the opposing sector ratios of the plurality of sectors. The method further comprising determining directionality of incoming radiation from the tension pressure assisted elongation of bubble shapes pointing towards direction of radiation particles that interacted with nuclei of tensioned metastable fluid detector system. A device capable of carrying out these methods is also disclosed.
Claims43
A method of determining directionality of radiation comprising, creating a volume of a tensioned metastable fluid in a chamber;
- placing the tensioned metastable fluid volume in the proximity of a radiation source;
- detecting the location of radiation induced cavitations within the tensioned metastable fluid;
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- determining the direction of the radiation source based on the radiation induced cavitations within the tensioned metastable fluid;
- wherein the step of detecting the location of radiation induced cavitations comprises detecting the time delay of the arrival of cavitation induced shock signals by processing signals obtained from a plurality of signal detection transducers mounted on the chamber.
A device for determining directionality of incident radiation comprising:
- a chamber holding a fluid,
- a control system in communication with a mechanism for deforming the chamber that includes at least one drive transducer and the resonance frequency of the at least one drive transducer is substantially similar to the resonance frequency of the chamber;
- wherein the control system and the mechanism for deforming the chamber operate together to induce and maintain a tension metastable state in the fluid that is sufficient to allow the nucleation of bubbles when the fluid molecules are struck by incident nuclear particles and
- a plurality of signal detection transducers spaced apart within the chamber in electronic communication with a system for determining the location of bubble cavitation events within the fluid volume.
A device for determining directionality of incident radiation comprising:
- a chamber holding a fluid,
- a control system in communication with a mechanism for deforming the chamber which operate together to induce and maintain a tension metastable state in the fluid wherein the tension metastable state is sufficient to allow the nucleation of bubbles when the fluid molecules are struck by incident nuclear particles and
- a plurality of signal detection transducers spaced apart within the chamber in electronic communication with a system for determining the location of bubble cavitation events within the fluid volume comprising a signal processing system that determines the number and location of bubble cavitations in the fluid.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.